[meteorite-list] Meteorite Discs Needed

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:52:57 +0200
Message-ID: <002f01c80e61$25944630$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

Hi Jeff,

If you plan to use them for watches,
I guess, it's better to use a stone than irons.
With irons you simply won't have any warranty, that they won't rust,
and if the clients won't have bought their watch as fashion article only,
they can be somewhat frustrated. Imagine, I saw even Campo-watches...
would be something for more melancholic people.
(And I ask myself - have you seen those vulgar Rolex watches on ebay?
Gold, gemmed with diamonds, but an iron-dial, Gibeon or so. Imagine, someone
is spending more than 10k$ and after a few years he has rust traces
inside...). So better take any shock darkened chondrite. Ghubara is one of
the few, which can bleed, Dho 010 too. But as such a thin and small disk
will have a weight of perhaps 2grams or so, it would be the wrong thing to
save money there, a few single bucks more wouldn't be the biggest share of
the retail price of such a watch. Anyway, meteorite watches seems to be en
vogue now, I googled around and found 8 or 10 different, also not only at
meteorite dealers, also from watch producers; mostly with Gibeon,
Muonionalusta, Cape York. Often - at least for my taste looking somewhat
cheap, sometimes really crappy. If I had to choose, I guess, I'd take one
from Erich, they are unostentatious, decent. The sickest thing I found were
cheap digital watches from Far-East, with a "Meteorite Quartz", with
stories, that NASA found in Arizona quartz in meteorite which turned out to
be of super-accuracy used in watches - that really hurts... and they were
unabashedly sold by the dozen for 80, 100 and more Euro in German ebay.
Hey and for outdoor activities, choose an URE, more shock resistance isn't
available ;-)

Best!
Martin

PS: We got just in some numbers for some fine 3ers, remind me to send you
pictures, perhaps you can need some for your unequilibrated-collection.
- NWA 4887
L/LL3, S3,W3 tkw 65g. - not paired with the other transitional, which is
much more fresh, W1, oops can't find it on your page, haven't you taken last
year a slice from us? Wait...number was NWA 2889.
- NWA 4900
H3, S2, tkw 1200g - has somewhat larger chondrules as usual for an H3
- NWA 4904
L3, S3, W2 - that's the one I showed you in April or May,
that one with the melt at one corner.
http://www.chladnis-heirs.com/vip/chondrite-endcut-443g.jpg
Was sold, and I think, the slices we have left, don't have any portions of
the melt anymore.





-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Jeff
Kuyken
Gesendet: Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007 05:43
An: Meteorite List
Betreff: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Discs Needed

Hi,

I'm looking for someone who may be able to supply around 40 discs made of
meteorite. Approximately 20mm in diameter and about 1-2mm thick. Ideally, an
etched (and STABLE) iron would be the preference but a nice dark chondrite
with high metal content (e.g. Ghubara) could also work. Please contact me
off-list if interested.

Thanks,

Jeff


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